PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mehdi H. Shishehbor
AU  - Tarek A. Hammad
AU  - George Thomas
TI  - Renal denervation: What happened, and why?
AID  - 10.3949/ccjm.84a.14129
DP  - 2017 Sep 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 681--686
VI  - 84
IP  - 9
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/84/9/681.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/84/9/681.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2017 Sep 01; 84
AB  - Despite promising results in initial trials, renal denervation failed to achieve its efficacy end points as a treatment for resistant hypertension in the SYMPLICITY HTN-3 trial, the largest trial of this treatment to date (N Engl J Med 2014; 370:1393-1401). Is renal denervation dead, or will future trials and newer technology revive it?